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What poem is this passage from? Who wrote it and what is it about? Who speaks these lines, when, and why? What do they show about the poem? “Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me: For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with _________________.” 

Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:  

Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:  

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Give at least three characteristics of a Sonnet and briefly explain its significance to the British Romantic period. You might name Romantic period writers of sonnets.  

Identify the poet, poem, and speaker. What statement is the speaker making about living beings, human and non-human? How does the speaker partially retract this later in the poem?Beware, lest in the worm you crush A brother’s soul you find;And tremble lest thy luckless hand Dislodge a kindred mind.  

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

       If I should die, think only this of me:             That there’s some corner of a foreign field       That is forever England.  There shall be             In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;       A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,             Gave, once her flower to love, her ways to roam,       A body of England’s, breathing the English air,             Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.

Identify: Comedy of manners

                                  Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten’d    …                           … While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,           We see into the life of things